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"No Favor Sway Vs; No Fear Shall Awe"
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Legislation by Ballot
In normal election years the voters in rea
sonably large proportion acquire in the course
of the campaign sufficient knowledge of the
various candidates upon which to base sound
judgments. But even in normal years too many
Of them fail to learn as much as they should
about the initiative and referendum measures.
The difficulty of interesting any consider
able number of voters even in the normally in
triguing rivalries for political preferment, in
this wartime election year, was demonstrated
, at primary time. Most aspirants to public office
found it impossible to catch the public ear. Well
over half of the registered voters failed to visit
the polls. If that is the state of interest in those
contests which have "the human touch," what
do you suppose will be the degree of interest
and study attracted by the measures which will
be on the ballot this fall?
The 1941 legislature referred some mea
' sures of importance. We can only hope they
will be studied Oregonians' well-established
practice of voting "no" when in doubt may
prove fatal to well-considered measures which
already have received the legislative nod of
approval.
In the other hand, petitions for a number
of proposed initiative measures have been pre
pared. We suspect that their circulation in most
cases has been abandoned. Only one, the pro
posal to allocate state income tax revenues in
excess of $7,750,000 to the school districts, is
believed to have any prospect of completion.
This school finance measure contains a
thin thread of merit in that it would accom
plish in part the equalization of school funds
which was sought before the legislature in 1941.
However, its merits are overbalanced by its
defects. If our analysis is correct it would free
the income tax from its present tight relation
to the 6 per cent limitation. It has other defects
which we will consider if it does reach the
ballot.
The key objection is that the measure as
sumes, but does not assure, that the income tax
rates will remain as at present and that a sur
plus will continue to pile up. We feel certain
the 1943 legislature either will reduce the in
come tax rates to prevent a surplus, or will pro
vide for further property tax offset allocations
of income tax receipts, most likely to the
counties.
Thus this measure is unnecessary and ill
advised. It would be a "break" for the harassed
voter if initiative measures were entirely miss
ing from the ballot in November. Not many
voters will have the time to serve as part-time
legislators this year; still fewer will havethe
inclination.
June BridW
All we know is what we -see in the papers.
The papers just now are frequently embellished
with brides' photos. Seldom does a bridegroom's
picture appear, but where there are brides there
must be bridegrooms. We have to take them on
faith, just as the bride does. The obvious con
clusion is that people are getting married.
If you think an editorial should encourage
or discourage, point with pride or view with
alarm, all to some practical purpose, you may
as well disembark at this station. We are well
aware that what may be said here is not going
to convince anyone that he should or should not
get married. Notice the "he." "She" made up
her mind long ago. A few words of Lincolnia
impinge upon our train of thought: . . far
above our poor power to add or detract."
Yes, young people will wed when, and only
when they get a good notion, no matter what
the contrary arguments, with a great sufficiency
of which they have been bombarded. Strange.
We Americans think we are cynical then how
explain our marriage rate, highest among the
leading nations of the world? We think we are
cultured, which usually means delayed mar
riages yet one-fourth of the men and half of
the women in the "20-24 age group are married,
a notably high percentage.
Are you a girl aged 18? No, or you wouldn't
waste time reading editorials. But if you were,
according to the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company's statisticians you would have 87
chances out of 100 of being married some day.
Give a girl 87 chances and how can she miss?
But if you tarry until age 27, you have only
two chances out of three; at age 36, only one
in four; at 45, only one in ten. Incidentally,
men's chances do not flit quite so rapidly.
War forces more difficult decisions upon
young folk pondering the question "to wed or
not to wed" and rather disrupts these statistical
expectations. However, the prospect of war and
of military service for the majority of youth,
has had the effect to date of increasing material
ly the marriage rate. There will be a compen
sating decrease later, especially if the war is
long and severe. No need to amplify that state
ment. Here it is June, the month of brides. The
best of everything to them and to the bride
grooms. Getting married in these times, you
ay, requires courage? Very well, then the wed
ding ring is a badge of courage. And courage is
a useful commodity in these times.
Rumors
A sizeable section of San Francisco's popu
lace last Friday was found to be believing one
or more of these false rumors:
1. Pearl Harbor was being bombed.
' 2. Washington, DC, was being bombed.
3. Puget Sound was being bombed.
4. Seattle was being bombed.
Sources of these rumors were a trifle
vague except the one about Pearl Harbor,
which was on the Berlin radio which falsely
. credited the "information, td "an American
news service.' It was said that "news" of the
Seattle bombing had come over the private
teletype service of a San Francisco bank from
Its Seattle branch. .
There is no telling when some of these
things may come true. Now is a good time
to resolve not to "believe them and not to repeat
them, unless they are reported by the regular
news agencies which have never let the pub
lic down yet in this war.
News Behind
The News
By PAUL MALLON
(Distribution by King Features Syndicate. Inc. Repro
duction la whole or in part strictly prohibited.)
WASHINGTON, June 0 Some readers are
coming back at me already for my column of yes
terday reminding them our love for defenseless
peace, as expressed in our gener-
mif'"2,"iwm' j "Jl
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with Germany and Italy (and Russia?) after this
war, it may be different, because we can trust
them.
None of this is true. Treaty-breaking is not a
racial or national characteristic of certain nations.
Let us face the truth. Japan, Germany and Italy
fell into the hands of military cliques which deluded
our statesmen and the world. Those rliques thought
they were acting in the best interests of their coun
tries in breaking treaties which imposed disadvan
tageous conditions upon them.
In the case of the Versailles treaty, the Ger
mans certainly had a case. By it, they were reduced
to permanent inferiority.
France, through the League of Nations, imposed
every possible treaty guarantee to keep Germany
inferior reparations, political and economic de
nials, even partial occupation for a time. She did
more. She backed those treaties with what she
thought was the greatest army in the world and
the Maginot line.
She made a mistake in both instances, but the
second one was irredeemable. If she really had
the best army in the world, she would not be where
she is today. She was lured psychologically into a
position of inferiority by a reverence for the secur
ity of treaties with Russia, with Britain, et al.
Her initial mistake was the belief that she
could permanently impose harsh conditions on an
enemy. She could have undercut the Hitler move
ment in Germany before it started by a fairer and
more just appeal to the German people than the
Versailles treaty provided.
In truth, she did mitigate the reparations terms
later on with some of our money. But she never
thought enough of her own debt-treaty with us
to pay her war debt, thereby showing again even
our friends do not keep treaties against their own
t interests.
Again, she could have stopped Hitler when he
made his first belligerent move, by marching into
the Rhineland. Her military superiority was even
then sufficient to have crushed him.
But, she thought her treaties guaranteed her
security and she did not want to fight. Her treaties
engendered pacifism among her statesman and
people, and kept them as easy marks for Hitler's
tricks.
Is not the path of history strewn back for 6000
years with scraps of paper, torn up by every nation
which thought it to its best interest to disregard
or violate treaties? Can anyone, then, now say that
treaty-breaking is a racial or a national problem?
Is it not an instinct of human nature, the primary
instinct, for self-security, self-preservation, self
welfare? I think this fresh history of our own genera
tion shows we could not safely put our trust either
in the good treaty of disarmament with Japan or
in the bad Versailles treaty. Neither did the Job.
ruia Hicarmampnt treats of 1052
enabled Japan to sneak-build
her navy up to ours, and that
the Versailles treaty mandates of
Pacific islands awarded to Japan,
enabled them to sneak-fortify the
air bases and sea bases which
made their conquest of the far
east possible by forming a pro
tective outer rim for her opera
tions. Readers say they always
thought the Japs were treacher
ous treaty-breakers, but that if wo
make treaties for disarmament
"International police force?" some readers ask.
Who is going to run it? The United States, Britain
and Russia?
I rather suspect the British empire is a thing
of the past, which would mean that the interna
tional police force would be led mainly by the
United States and Russia. How long would that
last amicably?
There would certainly be plenty of looking
over back fences in that deal, and perhaps some
burrowing under.
Any realistic consideration of that prospect,
must lead you straight to the same point of our
experience with Japan and Germany. To be really
secure and to be certain of maintaining peace at
home, we will first need a domestic police force
of the biggest army, the strongest navy and the
best air force in the world.
"An association of nations?" others ask. That
is of secondary importance if you keep the US army,
navy and air force strong and alert and see that
no one gets a better one.
If you choose, make a bigger League of Na
tions, a greater world court, but don't trust it to
keep your own peace any more than an interna
tional police force. Fortune said about one-third
think this war would not have occurred if we had
been members of the League of Nations. I do not
believe that.
To accept that conclusion is to assume that our
statesmen would have been smarter than the Brit
ish and French, that they would have stopped
Mussolini when he went Into Ethiopia and destroyed
the last vestiges of confidence ina league of which
he had been a member.
Our memory tells us we were not smarter. Nor
would we have done anything different about the
Japs thumbing their nose at the league and moving
into Manchuria.
I don't think any international police force
would have done any different either, because the
people of this country and its leaders were of the
same opinion as Britain and France and the league
at that time namely that they did not want to
fight They had been lulled into a fake sense of
security through treaties.
You may differ with my deductions, but you
cannot forget the recent history of all treaties when
you form your next peace. You cannot let inter
national propaganda or your oWn good Christian
hopes blind you to this record which is stained with
American blood."
The fabric of our future world policy, where
ever it is to be, must be woven from the thread
of these events upon the loom of realism. I hope
it Is backed by the best possible army, navy and
ir force .
Tom Thumbs Up!
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Today's Garden
By LILUE L. MADSEN
C. P. reports that she wants to
grow a number of herbs for
home use and wants information
on them. Those she names are
parsley, sage, dill, chives, rose
mary, lavendar, thyme and horse
radish. She also wants to know
the best uses of each.
Answer: PARSLEY: One would
think everyone would know the
uses of parsley, but every once
in a while a new use is discover
ed. I tasted it not long ago in
cottage cheese and found it de
icious. It had been dried and al
gravies and the like. It is easily
been used with meats, in salads,
gravies and the Ikie. It is easily
grown, considered a biennial,
and while it can be transplanted,
it is best sown in the ground
where it is to be grown. Almost
any well-drained garden soil
will do.
SAGE: Sage is definitely a
perennial, but it does lose some
of its flavor unless new plants
are grown every few years. It
grows from either cuttings or
seed, and should not be cut
much for use the first year.
Used chiefly in sausages, dress
ings and in certain varieties of
cheese.
DILL: This is an annual but
will sow itself so that one almost
comes to think of it as a peren
nial. Does not transplant too
readily so should be sown in the
location it is to grow. Seeds are
harvested when ripe and leaves
just as the flowers open. It is
used chiefly in fish sauces, in
pickles and the leaves in vine
gars. MINT: A true perennial. Prop
agates easily (sometimes too
easily) by root runners. Will
take the garden if not watched.
Grows best in slightly moist soil.
If used sparingly is good in cool
drinks, sauces and sometimes
used with green peas.
LAVENDER: Used only to
scent linens. Will grow from
cuttings or from seed. Cuttings
are sometimes a little slow to
start and seed does, not germin
ate rapidly. Grows best in rath
er sandy soiL Flowers are pick
ed just as they open. They are
tied in bunches and dried in cool
air place with their heads hang
ing in a downward position.
HORSE - RADISH: Usually
started by root cuttings set out
in spring or early summer. A
well drained soil is used. These,
like mint, are true perennial
and will last for years. There
may be other uses for horse-radish,
but the only one I know of
Is as a relish.
THYME; Perennial, but has to
be watched or it disappears.
Other herbs or plants will wtake"
it Grows readily from either
seed or cuttings. Thyme is used
in soups and poultry dressings. .
No herb .garden, no matter
how small is complete without
By K3RKE L. SIMPSON"
Wide World War Analyst for The
Statesman
Whatever else Premier General
Hideki Tojo, the real ruler of
Japan, told Emperor HirohUo in
his report on the war Tuesday
he had only bleak tidings from
the Midway Island area. The
scope of the Japanese disaster
there has swelled day by day,
hour by hour as the returns come
In.
Tokyo's failure even to admit
there has been a battle at all is
positive proof a jarring blow has
been struck not only in grim re
taliation for Pearl Harbor; but
at the very foundations of the
Japanese conquest dream. How
serious a blow Tojo himself may
not have known nor been able
yet to reveal even to his nominal
sovereign.
That the Japanese sea force
fled the field under a radio
blackout to escape farther
American vengeance is wholly
probable. There ara strong In
dications Its losses have not yet
been folly scored np. Its plight
was so desperate once the Mid
way trap was sprang that its
laggard sea units, battered
lame-dock craft, most have be
come a menace.
They were the spoor of the sea
trails. Falling behind uninjured
or less damaged craft, they gave
clues to the far-ranging Ameri
can air scouts as to where their
mora fortunate fugitive com
rades might be seeking refuge.
That could bring American sub
marines on scouting duty into
their path.
Nor could Japanese pride per
mit surrender of injured craft
even when hopelessly cut off.
What happened to those enemy
lame-ducks may never be known;
but the ancient Samurai code to
'Crime at
By EDITH BRISTOL
Chapter SI Continued
"I hope you'll soon be better."
I almost threw the words at
Miss Dawson, "And 111 be back
and see you again." I'll be back
with the sheriff, I promised my
self, as quickly as I can get hold
of him.
Now this next part of my story
comes under the head of coinci
dences nobody need believe it
who doesn't want to for it is so
amazing that it was hard for me
to beiieve it myself.
But as I hurried back, across
the dooryard to the cottage, the
next clue that I needed the one
I had overlooked longest blew
before my feet.
Everybody has one story to
tell of a marvelous coincidence
and this is mine.
The cottage in Hidden Cove,
planned originally for a week
end resort only, had no furnace.
Occupants burned trash in a big
metal incinerator that stood by
the path leading from the kitch
en to the fence. If I had come
out through the front door in-,
stead of running out by way of
the kitchen, I would have miss
ed this next clue but I came
by way of the trash burner and
passed it on my way to Lance's
car.
My heart 'was beating and I
could feel my cheeks blazing
with excitement Florabelle Hunt
was mixed up in the killing of
Worth Durfee. Of that I was cer
tain. She was involved in the
death of Es telle Gregg too she
had opportunity to change the
figure on the medicine label. The
changed figure had been done
with a pen. I remembered how
clumsily the box was wrapped.
I noticed it at the time. Then
she must have unwrapped the
box, changed the figure, replaced
the paper while I was telephon
ing Martha. The pieces of the
puzzle were slipping into place.
I got in the car. I must get to
Gallina as fast as I could and
tell Sheriff Allen what I had
discovered.
The wind blew some scraps of
paper from the trash burner.
Whatever possessed me to do it,
I cannot explain, for the engine
was purring and I was ready to
throw the car into gear. But
something about the bits of paper
attracted my attention and I got
out and picked them up. -
From the kitchen window
Florabelle Hunt was ! watching '
me but I picked them up just
the same: Some scraps of news
paper. Some letters torn across.
A bill or two. Then something
that seemed familiar I looked
It was the photograph of Wal
ter Gregg taken at the Gallina
Dam. The very photo that Flora
belle Hunt had taken from the
wan of ttie study the first time
I saw her!
But it . wasn't the photograph
chives. These, too, are peren
nials, easy to grow and not un
attractive when in flower, Start-'
ed from little bulbs. Leaves are
used, chopped finely, in salads,
cheeses, dressings, omelettes.
which Japan's military , caste stfli
clings suggest wholesale hari
kiri for ships and crews some
where in those wide waters.
Face-saving' by self destruc
tion when confronted with de- r
lest or disgrace still is a func
tioning relic of Japanese feud
alism. It is the fate that seems
certainly In store for the Japa
nese who commanded or
planned that ill-fated sortie
against Midway Island. It could
have been ordered for wonnd
ed ships to blind the trail of
those still able to ran for ref
ng somewhere.
Whatever happened to break
American contact with the fo
west of Midway, the results oi
the battle cast a new and omin
ous shadow on the "victory" sum
mary of six months of war Tojo
might otherwise have laid be
fore the prisoner of the Palacs
at Tokyo, his puppet emperor.
Like the Coral sea fight and Gen
eral DoolittleV bomber sweep
across Japan, they spell out into
portents of an approaching day
when Japan will find herself be
sieged by air and sea as Eng
land long was but is no longer.
Hirohito is the 124th Japanes
emperor of his line in a dynasty
that antedates the Christian era)
and he may be the last. His fat
and that of his empire are now
at stake in a conflict brought on
him by his military monitors in
flamed by premature estimate!
of nazi strength at arms and
seeking escape from a "China
incident" that had dogged them
for half a decade. And the bones
of Japanese dead men and ships
that litter the floor of the Coral
sea and the north central Pacific
are an ill omen for the son of
more than a hundred emperors
who sits in Tokyo.
Castaway'
that startled me and gave me the
clue that helped me along the
next step on the trail.
It was what was missing from
the photograph. The pictured
face of Harry Craven, standing
in the foreground, had been
carefully cut out Only a round
hole remained. Such a hole as
would be left by cutting out a
circle large enough to wear in a
watch or a locket. That circle
was missing!
Then it was the picture of
Harry Craven she had stolen!
The part containing Walter
Gregg had been thrown out to
be burned. And I held it in my
hand.
That missing circle, so neatly
clipped from the larger photo
graph, told me its own story.
Someone at the cottage in Hid
den Cove either Pauline' or
Florabelle valued a photograph
of Harry Craven so much that
she would stead it Enough to
steal a large picture to cut mat
small face from the center!
It could not be Pauline, for
Martha knew her history, I rea
soned with myself all the way
back to the ranch house. She
could have no secret association
with Craven. It must be Flora
belle. So many other things now
began to be clear. When Walter
Gregg was found dead, the two
women in the cottage at the
cove knew it, in spite of their
isolation, almost as soon as Har
ry Craven found it out He drove
up to tell them, I remembered.
That Craven was mixed up in
all our troubles I had no doubt
But how to prove it? And if Cra
ven was a key witness against
Lance, then how to discredit him
with the district attorney before
he could do Lance further harm?
Fate played into my handi
better than I dared hope. As soon
s I reached home I -telephoned
the sheriffs office in Gallina
Allen would know what to do.
But the sheriff was out; would
not be back until late tonight
Perhaps tomorrow. I was disap
pointed. I wanted to tell him
once all that I had learned froa
my dash to the cove.
But there was something ebx
I wanted to do. That file, at
" carefully guarded in the steel
cabinet Any day it might b
called back to the offices of th4
fomPany-1 was surprised, to teU
the truth, that it had been d
to stay here at the rancs
so longfor Gregg had distinctly
told me that many of the f olden
neM company business.
For days I had the feeling that
within ttoae files were paper,
Jbat might throw a light onlomi
T tt'old tragedy-
or four-fold tragedy. now,7in
the arrest of Lance. '
"While the cabinet had bees
locked nobody had looked iniW
now, thanks to our unknown vis
itor, the padlock hung open from
its hasp and it was a simple mat
v ter to pull out the drawers. Agaia
I reminded myself of what the
sheriff had told me, "In looking
for a killer, the end justifies Um
means.
(To be continued) -